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Coburn, Issa Support Postal Service Modified Saturday Delivery Plan

“This common-sense reform would save the Postal Service more than two billion annually," wrote Coburn and Issa. “In his recent inaugural address, President Obama spoke about the need to find real solutions to our nation’s problems. Supporting the US Postal Service’s plan to move forward with...
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Issa, Cummings Question DOJ on FOIA

“[T]he Committee seeks information about a number of issues including outdated FOIA regulations, exorbitant and possibly illegal fee assessments, FOIA backlogs, the excessive use of exemptions, and dispute resolution services,” the Oversight leaders write.
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Government Spending: How Can We Best Address the Billions of Dollars Wasted Every Year?

Chairman’s Preview Statement OGR Full Committee Hearing: "Government Spending: How Can We Best Address the Billions of Dollars Wasted Every Year?"
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Full Committee Business Meeting
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Issa Statement on Sullivan’s Departure from USSS

“I wish Director Sullivan the best in his future endeavors,” said Chairman Issa. “When controversy occurred in his agency, he took swift action and responded to oversight with direct and forthright answers.
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Issa Statement on Secretary Chu’s Departure from DOE

“While I wish Secretary Chu well in his future endeavors and respect his contributions to his country as a scientist, the direction the Department of Energy has taken under his leadership has been disconcerting."
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Oversight Hearing to Examine Federal Waste

In this hearing, the Committee will hear testimony from non-governmental organizations about the issues within the federal government that are contributing to waste and inefficiency.
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Oversight, Ways and Means Seek Interviews, Documents on Illegal Obamacare Expansion

“Our staffs have attempted to work with Treasury in a cooperative manner regarding our request and they have tried repeatedly to accommodate Treasury’s concerns about producing the documents, but Treasury refuses to be forthcoming with the Committees,” the letter states.
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Foreign Affairs, Oversight Seek Answers on Incomplete State Department Benghazi Report

“Unfortunately, the ARB did not address some important questions about the attacks in Benghazi, which we believe may contain crucial lessons learned for other U.S. facilities abroad to follow,” the letter states.
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Issa, Vitter Investigate EPA’s Transparency Problem, More Suspicious E-mail Accounts

“We’ve seen EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s ‘Richard Windsor’ e-mails, and now we have a regional administrator who appears to be dodging the agency’s mandatory recordkeeping policy,” said Vitter. “The American people have to be wondering where this will stop."